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William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California's history. Mulholland, a self-taught engineer, was the chief architect of the Owens Valley Aqueduct--a project ranking in magnitude and daring with the Panama Canal--that brought water to semi-arid Los Angeles from the lush Owens Valley. The story of Los Angeles's quest for water is both famous and notorious: it has been the subject of the classic yet historically distorted movie Chinatown, as well as many other accounts. This first full-length biography of Mulholland challenges many of the prevailing versions of his life story and sheds new light on the history of Los Angeles and its relationship with its most prized resource: water.
Catherine Mulholland, the engineer's granddaughter, provides insights into this story that family familiarity affords, and adds to our historical understanding with extensive primary research in sources such as Mulholland's recently uncovered office files, newspapers, and Department of Water and Power archives. She scrutinizes Mulholland's life--from his childhood in Ireland to his triumphant completion of the Owens Valley Aqueduct to the tragedy that ended his career.
This vivid portrait of a rich chapter in the history of Los Angeles is enhanced with a generous selection of previously unpublished photographs.
Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of 2000
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A Great Story Lost in the Details.......2004-12-21
One of the great stories in American history was the transformation of Los Angeles from a sleepy, anarchic California town into the megalopolis of today. And in any history of this transformation, the figure of William Mulholland looms large, for it was he who almost single-handedly brought about this transformation by providing Los Angeles with the one thing it needed to grow: an abundant water supply. This was accomplished by building an aqueduct to divert water from the Owens River to L.A. But this was no peaceful project; residents of Owens Valley, farmers and ranchers, felt the water had been appropriated from them through cronyism and legal bullying. They retaliated by blowing up sections of the aqueduct in 1924 and 1927. Mulholland himself met his own downfall with the collapse of the St. Francis Dam in 1928, a disaster that killed over 500 people and destroyed Mulholland's career.
These are but parts of a great story in American history, but one would never know it from reading his granddaughter's tome, for the vivacity of the times is thoroughly lost in needless detail; almost a year by year survey of her grandfather's accomplishments. Instead she is more intent on refuting the critics' charges, painting Mulholland as a pragmatist guided by a progressive vision of what Los Angeles could become. Because of this stand, her arguments are not altogether convincing; the Owens Valley residents tend to be painted as villains exploited by villains on the press that seek Mulholland's downfall. In the Preface we are given warning of this bias when she takes previous books on the subject to task. Her attempt at exonerating her grandfather for the St. Francis Dam disaster is also unconvincing, almost as if she were attempting to refute the movie "Chinatown", itself a piece of fictionalized history.
If by reading the above paragraph one thinks this biography is lively, think again. The best way to obfuscate an issue is to bury it in details, and the book covers its subject almost year by year, which is a shame given the subject matter and the presence of Mulholland, a mover and shaker who, unfortunately, became a prisoner of his own vision. Mulholland's life is akin to a Greek tragedy, and this is the stuff of which history is made, not the mere recitation of facts. The tragedy is that, given the subject matter, this book could have been so much more than it turned out to be.
A history of Los Angeles and the men that created it........2003-03-17
This book follows the entire sequence of events that lead the city of Los Angeles from a small agricultural town with a population of 10,000 in 1880 to become one of the major cities in North Americia. I thought that I knew about Mulholland before I read this book. Even today he is a minor legend in southern California. The real story is presented here. This book is well organized, well written, and very objective.
Dana Willis.......2001-12-09
Catherine Mulholland sets the tone of the book in the preface, where she focuses on putting previous publications in their place, and states her reliance on newspapers of the time. As pointed out in an earlier publication (Water and Power by W. Kahrl) newspapers are an unreliable source of information because they tend to reflect the bias of the publisher at the time. Mr. Kahrl relied on official records and documents whereas Ms. Mulholland relied more on newspaper accounts and less on official documents.
In large part the book covers the life and times of William Mulholland, but it certainly leaves the reader with the impression that he did only good in his lifetime. Unfortunately the book ignores or does not respond to much of the criticism heaped upon Mr. Mulholland by more contemporary publications, and instead focuses on his positive contributions. In this respect the book is not entirely well balanced. Although well written I fear that this book is an attempt by the family to have the final word on the history of a complex man who was more dimensional than the author allows.
The history of Los Angeles is the history of it's water.......2000-10-02
You would think a biography by a grand-daughter may tend to the less objective side. Catherine Mulholland's work is a referenced account of the fight for municipal control of water, and subsequently power, in the early 1900's in Los Angeles. Mulholland takes you by the hand, almost as if you were on an tour with "The Chief", through Willaim Mulhollands childhood, departure from Ireland, to eventual settlement in Los Angeles. From there she cronicles the water needs of the pueblo (pop. 10,000); Mulhollands rise from digger to the designer of the Los Angeles Aquaduct; his management of the political arena to the St. Francis Dam. It was the 'over success' of Bill Mulholland to bring water to a desert that allowed the expotential growth of Los Angeles in area and character. Discriptions of the water works are fascinating - some surviving parts of it still are in use. If you have ever wondered what the real story was behind the film "Chinatown", this is it.
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Robyn Stacey, one of Australia's most famous photographers, opens the doors of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney herbaria, and the history of Australia's flora in this well-illustrated volume on the nature of collecting. Accompanied by essayist, Ashley Hay, this collection of photographs tells the stories of those who collected, and what and when they collected, as well as the scientific background of each of the specimens.
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This stunning book of photographs by Robyn Stacey, one of Australia's greatest photographers, is the first of its kind. Together with essayist, Ashley Hay, they throw open the closed doors of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney herbarium, and reveal the secret history of Australia's flora. Herbarium tells fascinating stories about the nature of collecting, those who collected, what they collected and when, and the scientific background to each of the specimens. A glossary of botanical descriptions provides a unique link between the specimens and their collectors, and exquisite photographs of the botanical specimens - some now extinct - comprise a collection of rare beauty.
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By focusing on three elemental themes--economic factors, measurement issues, and decision-making perspective--Jamie Pratt's book provides an enlightening coverage of financial accounting from an economic perspective, at once tightening the conceptual framework while enriching the essential contextual relevance of principles every business manager needs to understand.
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Financial Accounting Study Guide.......2007-10-05
Arrived in excellent, brand new condition. Came in a timely fashion. Great study guide with review and practice questions.
Not a good book from a student point of view, but serves the purpose.......2005-10-13
I bought this book because it is required for my Financial Accounting course. The book serves its purpose, which is to introduce the world of financial accounting to student like me who has no business background. However, the author has injected a lot of personal opinions into the text, which some are really biased. For example, the author emphasize on the mis-trust between management and investor. There is, to some extent especially after the scandals of Enron and WorldCom, but author has exaggerated it. Also, my professor, a former CFO, pointed out some formulas and pratices on the book have no value in the real world. The plus side is that the text in the book is not hard to understand.
Speedy Delivery.......2005-09-03
I got the book three day after I ordered.
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Thanks for doing me a favor.
Not even an answer key to the exercises.......2003-03-08
The book is easy to understand, but there should be a solutions manual, or at least an answer key to the exercises. It has been very difficult for me to "learn the mechanics" and "apply the concepts" at the end of each chapter. The pace of the course allows the teacher to solve only 2 or 3 exercises in class, and the book certainly does not make selfstudy easy. Needless to say, that you can't learn financial accounting just by reading. To makes things even worse, a study guide, which does not refer to the same exercises in the book, is out of print.
Confusing.......2001-04-13
The text is very confusing.
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Microeconomics in Context challenges conventional approaches to the field by covering the physical and social/psychological factors influencing economic activities before introducing underlying principles. Unlike other titles, the authors present a broad look at economics in context, allowing students to connect their view of the real world with key economic concepts.
- The authors highlight how goals and values shape people's decisions in all aspects of their lives, including on economic-related issues.
- The text features coverage of all three types of economies: the business economy involving commercial firms; the public purpose economy focusing on government, non-profit, and non-governmental organizations (including international agencies); and the core economy of households and communities.
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mainstream econ and it's critique (from a broader perspective).......2007-02-24
I found a descriptive review of this book on the AdBusters-dot-org website
http://adbusters.org/the_magazine/69/The_Revolution_Will_Begin_with_a_Textbook_Part_Two.html
Flipping through your introductory text, you discover that it's not made up of countless variations of curves intersecting. Prose that celebrates perfectly competitive though non-existent markets seems to be in short supply. Economic heresies - "other goals may sometimes outweigh the goal of maximizing production" and "wealth itself is not well-being" - are committed left and right. After 18 years, the economics department has finally switched textbooks.
While this new text still has supply and demand curves, there are also discussions about global warming and biodiversity loss. The authors draw on insights from psychology. They raise questions about overconsumption in rich countries. And they expose the mainstream circular flow model - the one that endlessly creates products without material or energy inputs, and without generating waste - as a fraudulent perpetual motion machine. You are, to say the least, a bit taken aback.
Welcome to Microeconomics in Context, by Neva Goodwin and three of her colleagues, a team that has expertise in mainstream, feminist, institutional and ecological economics. Their text dives right into poverty, inequality, unemployment, the gains and costs involved in trade, the linkages between economic activity and the environment. To the trio of activities that are normally the focus of economic analysis - production, distribution and consumption - the authors add resource maintenance. It's a massive leap forward for economists to methodically look at what is needed in order to tend to, improve or preserve the natural and social resources that support economic activity and quality of life.
Homo economicus still makes appearances in Goodwin's book, but mainly to help students converse in the language of neoclassical economists. Instead, the authors focus on how society can shape the economy to enable people to live healthy, meaningful lives and to live in harmony with each other and with nature. They seek to resurrect the profession's historical interest in exploring means other then economic growth for alleviating poverty and deprivation. Their economics once again focuses on well-being, rather then the artifice of utility, which allows us to replace the maximization of consumption with more complex goals.
Markets still have their place, the authors concede. They communicate information about desires and scarcity amongst buyers and sellers. They create incentives and they help coordinate economic activity. But they do not correct for inequities in distribution, leaving some desperately poor while others buy a third vacation home. Markets can also favor the undemocratic exercise of power, and they can undermine the conditions required for sustainability and community. Economic policy, this text argues, must take into account these realities.
Microeconomics in Context is the ideal text for getting a solid foundation in both neoclassical microeconomics and its limitations. It also looks sufficiently like a mainstream textbook that some profs might be able to teach from it without the department chair noticing that a heretical text had made it into the building. But because it seeks to provide a foundation in the neoclassical approach, even from a critical perspective, its treatment of alternative schools of thought is at times limited. nate
Heterodox enough.......2005-08-29
This book does exactly what the above
Book Description says it does so there is no need to give a summary description here.
Because this book takes a "broader" approach (which here means that it incorporates insights from non-neoclassical schools of thought and other disciplines), it necessarily gives a bit less attention to the "mechanics" of some basic neoclassical tools (viz. details about and permutations of graphical representations of models).
This is not to say it doesn't deal pretty fairly with the dominant paradigm or give a clear introductory account of it. It certainly does that. It is suggested, however, that a student wishing to thoroughly understand some of the finer details of graphical representations of neoclassical models (and deductions from them) should use this book in conjunction with a "standard" introductory Microeconomics textbook, such as by Robert Frank or John Sloman.
Equally, if a good student is to become a good economist, s/he would do well to read Goodwin et.al. in conjunction with their "standard" text. Thinking outside the (Edgeworth) box is more and more a prerequisite for economists these days.
Excellent.......2005-07-15
This book does an excellent job providing an heterodox view of microeconomic theory. It provides insights from economists outside of the neoclassical model (many Nobel Prize winners), giving a more complete and realistic picture of how economics works. It is also clearly written with excellent examples and clear quantitative analysis.
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The financial crisis is a recurring phenomenon, yet its various instances have differed greatly in nature. Crises have punctuated the history of Western financial systems since the early eighteenth century variously appearing in the guise of stock market crashes, large-scale failures of financial enterprises, collapses in the external value of a nation's currency, or some combination of the three.
This study explores the major patterns of change in the evolution of financial crises as enduring phenomena, and analyzes the paradoxical position that crises are at once similar to and different from each other. Brenda Spotton-Visano examines economic, psychological and social elements intrinsic to the process of capitalist accumulation and innovation to explain the enduring similarities of crises across historical episodes. She also assesses the impact that changing financial and economic structures have on determining the specific nature of crises and the differential effect these have in focal point, manner and extent of transmission to other, otherwise unrelated, parts of the economy.
Financial Crises offers a consistent method for interpreting variations in financial crises through time and allows for a better overall appreciation for both the transitory fragility and enduring flexibility of financial capitalism and the potential vulnerability created by on-going financial development.
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Recent Industrialization Experience of Turkey in a Global Context: (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)
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The standing of industrialization has fallen in the list of social and economic objectives of developing countries in recent years. Turkey provides an ideal example of this beginning with a program adopted in 1980 under the auspices of the IMF and the World Bank. The macroeconomic and microeconomic issues concerning Turkish industrialization in global context with particular emphasis on the decade of the 1980s are examined. The rapid transformation in industrialization strategy from import substitution under heavy state direction to outward orientation has had a profound effect on industrialization of Turkey.
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By focusing on three elemental themes--economic factors, measurement issues, and decision-making perspective--Jamie Pratt's book provides an enlightening coverage of financial accounting from an economic perspective, at once tightening the conceptual framework while enriching the essential contextual relevance of principles every business manager needs to understand.
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THIS IS THE STUDY GUIDE, NOT THE ACTUAL TEXT.......2003-08-15
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Economic Principles of Law (Law in Context S.)
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Economic Principles of Law applies economics to the doctrines, rules and remedies of the common law. In plain English and using non-technical analysis, it offers an introduction and exposition of the 'economic approach' to law - one of the most exciting and vibrant fields of legal scholarship and applied economics. Beginning with a brief history of the field, it sets out the basic economic concepts useful to lawyers, and applies these to assess the core areas of the common law - property, contract, tort and crime - with particular emphasis on their doctrinal structure and remedies. This is done using leading cases drawn from the birthplace of the common law (England & Wales) and other common law jurisdictions. The book serves as a primer to the wider use of economics which has become increasingly important for law students, lawyers, legislators, regulators and those concerned with our legal system generally.
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Between Market, Stat and Kibbutz: The Management and Transformation of Socialist Industry (Employment and Work Relations in Context)
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Focusing on the kibbutz movement in Israel, this text examines communal socialist industry and the consequences of its embeddedness within a national polity and the global market economy. The subject is located within the debates about the internationalization of capitalism and parallel debates about the future of socialism within the global market economy. The text also explores the management and organization of kibbutz industry as an essential feature of communal socialism.
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This is a study of economic change, the labor market, and public policy in the Clydeside region of Scotland. It offers an example of an economy that has significantly changed over the last two decades and a city that has responded with the widest range of urban policies for economic
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Incomes Policies in the Wider Context: Wage, Price and Fiscal Initiatives in Developing Countries
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Micro Economics in Context (Cram101 Textbook Outlines - Textbook NOT Included)
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Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included.look no further for study resources or reference material. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes, and practice-tests for your textbook. Only Cram101 is Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook.
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